When Democracy Breaks
Studies in Democratic Erosion and Collapse, from Ancient Athens to the Present Day
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 1 May 2024
- ISBN 9780197760789
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages376 pages
- Size 156x235x25 mm
- Weight 658 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 2 b/w figures 558
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Short description:
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
When Democracy Breaks aims to deepen our understanding of what separates democratic resilience from democratic fragility by focusing on the latter. The volume's collaborators--experts in the history and politics of the societies covered in their chapters--explore eleven episodes of democratic breakdown, from ancient Athens to Weimar Germany to present--day Russia, Turkey, and Venezuela. Strikingly, in every case, various forms of democratic erosion long preceded the final democratic breakdown. While each case of democratic decay is unique, the patterns that emerge shed much light on the continuing struggle to sustain modern democracies and to assess and respond to the threats they face.
Long description:
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Democracy is often described in two opposite ways, as either wonderfully resilient or dangerously fragile. Both characterizations can be correct, depending on the context. When Democracy Breaks aims to deepen our understanding of what separates democratic resilience from democratic fragility by focusing on the latter. The volume's collaborators--experts in the history and politics of the societies covered in their chapters--explore eleven episodes of democratic breakdown, from ancient Athens to Weimar Germany to present-day Russia, Turkey, and Venezuela. Strikingly, in every case, various forms of democratic erosion long preceded the final democratic breakdown. Although no single causal factor emerges as decisive, linking together all of the episodes, some important commonalities--including extreme political polarization, explicitly anti-democratic political actors, and significant political violence--stand out across the cases. Moreover, the notion of democratic culture, while admittedly difficult to define and even more difficult to measure, may play a role in all of them. Throughout the volume, the contributors show again and again that the written rules of democracy are insufficient to protect against tyranny. While each case of democratic decay is unique, the patterns that emerge shed much light on the continuing struggle to sustain modern democracies and to assess and respond to the threats they face.
The book is important not just for political science but equally for history.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Introduction - David Moss, Archon Fung, Odd Arne Westad
Chapter 2: Democratic collapse and recovery in ancient Athens (413-403) - Federica Carugati & Josiah Ober
Chapter 3: The U.S. Secession Crisis as a Breakdown of Democracy - Dean Grodzins and David Moss
Chapter 4: The Breakdown in Democracy in 1930s Japan - Louise Young
Chapter 5: Weimar Germany and the Fragility of Democracy - Eric D. Weitz
Chapter 6: The Failures of Czech Democracy: 1918-1948 - John Connelly
Chapter 7: September 11, 1973: Breakdown of Democracy in Chile - Marian Schlotterbeck
Chapter 8: The Indian Emergency (1975-1977) in Historical Perspective - Sugata Bose & Ayesha Jalal
Chapter 9: Democratic Breakdown in Argentina, 1976 - Scott Mainwaring
Chapter 10: Why Russia's Democracy Broke - Chris Miller
Chapter 11: A Different "Turkish Model": Exemplifying De-democratization in the AKP Era - Lisel Hintz
Chapter 12: Venezuela's Autocratization, 1999-2021: Variations in Temporalities, Party Systems, and Institutional Controls - Javier Corrales
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